Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 25, 1874, Page 11

THE LIQUOR QUESTION. ooent for Woman-Suflrage in ke d Lm[ntcrcst of Temperance, —_— The operation of Prohibitory Laws. gemperance and Woman-sufirage, . 2a Chicace Tribune: % e ot tho Temperance hosts to 2 ¢ the influence which aoneter 8 B0 rniox n the Probibitory movement, and yould h‘".S‘ZL interests of oar cause. In a spon 108 T pty-tmo years wo have succeoded od 0 upon tho etatute-books of fve in 658720 8 o Probibutory law,—n law which suates, O 0904 success in curtailing tho bas bOCD B oor scld, as offcial _staustics d:nn, provo. Ia Maine, for iustance, whero tioto operation, §8,257.015 was spent et s, In Connecticat, = State of for liguor sl population, and ‘tbe only Now- sbout ¢U0E ez under Licenso, the samo Esgleod 3 was spent. In Massachusetts, Cbition, 27,079,572 was spent in the o in Michigan, under License, same $0003 C in New Jereey, under License, 52,1810 200 dlation consumed $12,408,” T ““"“Tf,':;ptmu show that the oft-repeatod L‘L et tho law is & (ailars, is an uomit- o ¢ condition of our cause in- L"wm?.:;a-?m what can we do to hasten Soates POETCS 3 world, the march of pros- \Winees the steam-engine and the examples. . - “Let us £ow, in tho maral, so:x_nl. and pnlmcg ‘endcavor tobe as eagacious and practi- ;j_ by should we continue to travel in theso aratmcote of ife st tho stago-caach rate of ?fl, if, by adopting Woman-Sullzage, we can ‘:"raon'llxfl tothe more spaedy reatization of rflidc‘flfl‘ wishes? 1 believe Womau-Suflrage 3 prove to Le i =2 TOE STEAM-TOWZE {othe moral, the political, and the religions world S s o b a - Axerica js prolificin inveniens 2xd new dis- .‘_-e-°:na‘¥s not slow o zpply 12 practical fhoalib ‘accrue from ber its which m: )\‘xilnilnl;whl:a;;w‘m Physical and waterial : ozress is tho urder of thodsv. In the moral B 8 Sld, Fhould wo Dot bo & cizel to iz bo.d of advancs ideas, aud 2pply tadm to o iical waes, 28ia tho world of mavter? In- Fed, should not tho epiritusl intereats of tle v.ri.pe promigent in our edforis zud plaos,.— Yoowiug thebail Jabors in il directivu aro of igheet practical moment to the ruco, gad e the moet deairable msterll,:l cuusxdulr:- usiics prove to be amoux Lhe i s ‘The arming of the Kcbelion, Proclamaciou juelu e peiical and expodient. the coorod race dunng i the ssmeg of tho 2 of Lyancipauon by ous good Drexi- Gent Luscoln, strcogiheoed tae frieuds of Frcedum, and_belped (o eava tie Life of tlie Ration. Hitors i8 fuil of eucoRraging exam- plos, and {ue Bibie, io its goneral sputit ana fendency, vrges forwad to the perfurwacce of slatever is nght. The Freat jaw of Cumpensa- tion evitably kindly follows the peiformance of scts based mpun ho etemnal principles of et azd jastice. i Tr:“l"l'n‘x!..\alu‘:lmmex‘l of America to-day with the baliot, 2ad it would prove as effecinal in de- slioymg the Lquor-t:auic of the couutrr, uiti- metaly. 2s did Presideuts Lincoln's prociama- tion pruve to be tho destrocuon of Simvery. It wonla uot only be an ac: of justize L0 woman, d ber emacipation, butit weuld elso, u ita eleots, Lelp to work ont the emascipation of the midions of tioderate drwkers, and arupkards,— Ureasinig the chais by nbich they are brund to Hing Alcobol rhrough foics of temptation and telit. It would ' BOLVE THE GREAT TROBLEX which we bave been lavcring 1o work ott, and brinz to 3 2appy consummaLOn this momeatsus 2ud irrepresrislo colict Lotween tuo triends end ecemics of ths liguor-traflic of the counir; by giving the addizional political surength ucce; ey toinsare us & blovdiess vietory fur I'ro- bitation. T'he batlot for women wouid save uvs theneessizy of the buil:t. More than oue-kaif of the legal voters of the Notiou aze ueers of intoxicetiug drinks, The inference 18, therofort, that enough cannot bo dome ax prescot, through legisistive eunctment apd the execution of Prunivitury laws, to remove {30 arw-stiops. Owly five-one-bundredehs of b0 women of the lazd use strung It therefure, murally cert: tha: wo shon!d get three-fourths or mors of ull votes cast by them for Probisition. T'ne ‘wiscom and necessity of bringing iuto the puiditical ficld this powerful aliy 3 to be felt by the lxil:x;- ) of our cavse i$ bein ing Temperasco bodies of the countrs. Tresideut of the Nationul Temperance Socis Judre Fitman, of 3lassachusctis,—in his address % e operiug of tae last anital meeiing, ac Buaiogs, sdiocated W idrage. At the Bats dampaiance C.nvontion of lilinois, beld Juns 50 of tlus yoear, 2t Blocm.naton, Womatu- SaZiage was indorsed by the Couvention, What- €17 Quncelesary misgivings we may have had teelofoe, let us dismiss tiex, and consmder teurziog of the bailat for woman as a part of the pln of operations in this great onflist. Whenever ~ the iuterest which the meties of America fecl in the wellare and uafery of their oftspring tiuds expression at tuo ellil-bor, 1t will be seen thae they mill seck to Tae the pathway of their children free as possi- Yofronthoss pitfalls prescoted in the cram- thopeof ow land. \roman's fine spiritual in- #5008 20d affection wiid Lere tind o tieid for ‘poactioa eficiency, and society will rejoice i oz , triends of Temperance in o iiest, let ua make use of all the nstromen- BUties wbich o kina Provideuce haa placed with- I our 1eaci to forward this benelicent woik. Do wot be satisfled with cinsading zlone, or #ood, but partiz] and indecisive, modes of UL lginshasten success by bringing isto Pquation the elements of legal as well os malpowar, In & Government like ours, laws i mads sod uomade by vows; and 8 Eps rover which regulaies the W hos the . right to abolsh 1t tegother. Lawe, being pased upon the concen- 180 opinion of " the public, zre tremendously ecciva for ths cunpreesion of great evils; and with Weaoeil Phillips when he says, aciety bz tho rigac to close the door of the o wabope” When we take inzo consideration 9 Apidity with which the liquor-traflic is still &mi ou land with moderste drinkers aud {iuakards, should we besitate to make use of all B umen:aties which God, Nature. and Xiely have put into our hauds for the desiruc- of the pronfic cause of disaster and woe? We rejoice in all that 18 Leing done the Sons of Temperanco, Temple of lflflmr_ . the Woman's Crusade, and 21l the other fomerous and eicient ingzrumentelities for'aid- o Qe of Temperance,—great aud good a8 for vo:k thev are downg,—but. comparatively 'h:“ the immente rumber being thrown into .67t river of deairuction aro rescued. m‘m‘m of moderate drinkers, hundreds of ;Bands of druokards, are fioating Comwn this .": :}mflu etream; acd, with ad tne 1n- aud appliauces put forth,—let us et 1t g byt o !m:fxgn.—alup! s !‘" FEW ABE WE ENABLED TO BESCUEZ. 8 furtber consider that other hundreds of m“’““?mds of children aud inuocent baoes are i 0, 8TOW D to tuke their places and re- i the great army of drunkerds, who have be- MW mawly through tne temptations pre- hn:il.ndu rotection of, laws and customs of et b, in our busy eforts to alleviste snd aunlst e effects, forpet tue instigating *hich renders tliis work necessary. Cru- Eang 3, 30d be thanked for all the zood sou kave “”m elevating and suving huwanity, and for Teah izpetas'son Luve given to the cause of val b8 in Amenies and_throughout the torg gt Le3ouot believe that you s1e going forggy tisfied withs tho right of asking tho mex P this traffic,—a traliic which chiely has Ty i aolishied 2od matutained by tie men. riere, the manufacturera, the dezlers, f _ of buildings where ety ess i3 tiaaracted, ere fn o D6 The corrupt Judges, f E:-u_rnng politicians, tho perjured ey, wito-bibbing priests and descous. the cditors snd’ wakers of the popalar Rghy o Linctured with & false and deceptive '&.;:_: thess aro chictly men. You should it demand the Lallot, so_ that yon can ey 'y co-operats with your frieuds who so oeed assistance. Wo have had your eym- J Your kind wishes, YOUT e2rncst | I H Wt 2t this stage of tho cause, that 2, conclusive, i 15 o OERwRELATy: 3 » Ryt LMING VOTING PREPONUXRANCE mtflun which the ballot in _your landa I T KiYo us. Give to the winds the evil bodizzs, the unnoccasary fears, which too .Bffi\'ul with the world in regard to this Vargs STTWOR _ objections offered ioat s aro wimply weak and fimey, and ¥orthy of any influsnce upoa & scund L THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1874—SIXTEEN PAGES. 11 mind. Thoyi licate a want of sufliciont thonght, or uohculihy brams. Let tho good common 0060 10 the Temperance ranks be exercieed and 2pplicd to this subject. Let us be willing to fol- luw out & good priiciploto ita logical cooclusion. Let us Lave faith in _justice.—fmin our loving - mothers, wives, and misters. We need their assistance, and that speedily, 1n the zreat work yat to bedone. Tho causs of Teniperance hay had tho 1cal arruments upon its side for wany yoars; our opponents never have answered tuem, and they nover can. We bave bad Science with us; wo bare had the morzl considerations, and the material. As a question of financealone, it towers above any othar, and perbaps nearly all otliers, in the Nation. And, when the disunguished frionds who so ably conducted the late Women's Con- gress shall bave their rightful places, snd sbare 1 the Executive, Logsiativa, and Judical De- partmoucs at tho Capital of our coun:ry, we shall expect to see theso questions OCCUPYING THAT PROMINENT PLACK in the atteution aud ca:s of tie Government which their importanco demands. The liquor-traflic costs uy more than 8600,- 000,000 outrisht, which is infinitely more than & wasta. To this may be added three-fourths of the costs of all our Criminal Courts, llouses of Corraction, prisous, jals, and benovolent inati- tutions. Then the waste of time, and the short- emug of human Lfe, aro a public waste: and, when political economists ehall undertakie fairly 2ud candidly 1o make a summing-up of the anuual amount lhore invoived, it will be found to be fabulous = and Lardly reslized even by the frisuds of Temperanco themselves. The loss to the country of s few millions of dollars each year, through an unjust baoking eystem, is sullicient causo of ezcited public debate in Congress and on 'Change. Tho question of ad valorem or specitic duties in im- ported goods, the dillercnt views of tarils and internal-revente collections. inyolvo Lut & com- paratively-small amount. The raitrozd-monopo- Iy. the 10n 2ud coal combinatious,—serivus pub- lic evils as these are,—all, all combined, do not begin to approach the mount o much worso than wasted by maintainivg the liquar-trafie. The calm and mature cousideratious of ntates- meun and philosophers KUST BE WITH U: ‘The founders of our Government eerly discov- ered (some of them certaiuly) the danger to our iustitutions of thie prevalent use of ntoxicating liquors. John Adams wrote eeverely sguiust the traffic, and cautioned bis countrymen continually "of its iwjurions efects upou tie couatry, Benjamiu Franklinalso xdvocaied Tem perauce. Thowmes Jelerson, the immortal frieud of mavkiud, came to the coucluvion, after & loug vublic experience sud cloxe obsorvation, that, il he way to go through his publichite agam, tize tirst question (as a mastter of public couceru aud prudence) he would ask appliczuts for of would be, **Do they ure incoxicating drinks ? " Tlus question bas got into our Cougrons by the appoiutment of a Comnussion 1o investizate the whols eubject of tlelizuor-traflic and the cfects ot Prolubitory laws, and to report thereon. It must not be taken out of Cungress until we have 80 surrounded the traflic by ergavic Coustitu- tional and State law as to rouder tue present and fuuro generstions COMPARATIVELY 8AFE from the davgeis wluch are nuw o just canse of avprebiension and alarn, We mmst 1egulate the Daoportation, the manufactare, aud the sale, in the best interets of bumauity. et un recollect that the most insidious foes of Tres Goveruwents sre dumestic; and that, whilo we bave rinen superior to all foreign om- pouen is aud Lo il internal enzmies of our Nation thus fay, il yet 1emains 10 be secn whpiber thore is virtud aud inbercut power enough i our Lody poliic to conquer the reign of fing Alcokiol. To the Gireat West we wwin with espectation and hope. Ihe balance of power. the predond- nan! iufivevce, 1s bete, which shall mold ths legislauion and'the 1watitutions of America fur tbe vext fitty years. Let ushuve no more States admitted to the Union cursed by the liqnor-traflic or the distravch \sement of women. Probibition for the Disinict o¢ Columbis and _tne baliot for women. When tiese Lwo grand ideas shull pre- vail in all the States and Terntories of our Lie- public (as certainly tizey will), America will truly become & beacon-light. clezr and uamistakable, 10 the nations, with m.terial, morzl, aod spiritual results whica will cowczaud 'the awizing atten- tion of all the zood of tite babitabio globs. anl tire gracious beuediction of the Suprems Ruler ol tue Uuivewe. 8. C. Fax. Toszox, Prohibitery Lows. To the Editer of The Chicage /riduvie: SIE: io one of your minor wditorials to-day, Fou may, *If 1t were ths habit of temperance- Teformers to stop and think 2t all, such facts and figures ™ as you pablish onght to convince them of tho follr of prolibitory legislation, It appears to me, they only furaish saditional evi- dencs that statutes which ere oot enyorced are far worse thanno statures. For iustancy, the statis- tica you give—assuming tuem to bo mccuraze— show that, in Portiand, Me., the number of saloons bLave increased over 200 per cent; that Bangzor bas over 300 saloous ; and, what is more starthing, that Boston baa 1.125 bar-rovms, 827 jug-rooms, and 1,501 gruceiies and hotels where Lquors are sold. What do_ there Sgues demonstiate? That the Prohit- itory laws—under which liquor-velling is pronibited —aie mnot enforced, and therciore, until they cre enforced, or the impos- sibility of doing so demoustrated, no axsestions as to the effect of the lzws should be made. When the Prolubition laws bave & Prohibitory Goversment, tas temperanca peools will abide by the result, perance officisls cannot be oiherwiso than = “desd-letier lax.™ Tue Probibitiunista are zware of this fact, and also of the impossibilicy of eitber the Kerubiucan or Democratic party uoanimonely indorsing the tompersuce move- meunt, and they bave tormed their own political which, in tne event of its success, will ge- :her incemperauce can be lessoned or toat iz 15 time for them to **step K. Caraco, Ock, 2y 1674, Tn the Editor of The Chicago Tribune> Sm: A bricf editonal 1 Tur TRisuxe of mences with the quatation, In the demoralization of our modern politics, this old saying Las been abundeutly proved co be false, 2ud, like the ex- ploded “ Error, woauded, writhes in prin and dies amid her woruhipers,” must be laid wpon the shelf. Ths figures which follow, and which have been gathered from uncificial sources, do lie, the ancient saw to tha contrery, notwithstanding. Please publish the letiers which follow, for the benefit of your readers and the pubiic generatly. ‘Thev have suchority bebind them, and zre thus thoroughly backed : Exrcutive DeranTyexT, Avcusta, Me., Juse 3, 1872, My Dran Sx: In anaver io your fuquiry in regard to the effect of the Maina lxw upou the liquor-trade in this State, 1 think it iv safe to aay that it 1a very much less than before the enacument of the law,—prabably not one-tenth as large. In sowe piaces liquor is old secretly 1 violation of 1aw, 28 many other offenses are committed against the statutes and the peacs and good order of society; but, in large districis of the State, the liquor-tratiic iz zearly or quite unknown, where formerly it w3s carried on iike any other trads, Very reapectfully youra. SipNeY Prreaay, Governor of Afaine., ForTr-sECOND CONGDESS, UxrrED BraTrs HOUSE OF RESRUSENTATIVES, WasHINGIOY, D. C., May 29, 1872, $x Drar S : Your fuvor of the 26th inst, con- taining an inquiry as to the effectof the Majne Liquor [3w n Testraizing tha sale of liquors in our State, cte., ia before me; and in reply, whiie I Am unsble to'stats any exicl percentsge of decresso in the business, I can, and do, from my own personal observation, u leajtatinyly sfiirm that the consumrtion of intozicate ing liquuce in Maine to-day is not one-fourth as grest 28 it was twenty yoars sgo; that, in the country por- tions of the State, tho s«ls and use have almost entire- Iy cesvod ; that the Law of itaelf, under a vigorous en- forcement of its provisionr, has craated a tetperance sentimens which Is marvelous, and to which opposition is poserices. 1n my opinion our remarkabla tempor- ance-reform’ of to-duy ia tho legitimata child of the fren found gratitudo for your earnest and per- rta (o the promotion of this cause, Iam, Yery respesifully, sour obedient cervant, o Wiiriau I, Fare, 3, C.. of Maine, And Ex-Atloruey-Generd of the eamo State. The Fou. Xual Dow. {Concuirred in by Senators Lot M. Morrill and H. Haxulin; 4lso, by nicmbers of Congrezs J. G. Llaine, Jehsn Lyrch, Joliz A. Peters, and Evzgens Hale,] 1In conversztion with one ¢ the signers of tho above, within a month, he stated that Le had no reason to change his opivion, PonTLAND, May 27, 1872 As to the diminution of the Hquér-trafic in the State of Aafne, aud particalurly in this city, ad the re- Sult of the aceptinn of the poiicy of Prolibition, wa Bave 1o sy that the trafic hus fallen off very largely. In relatioa to that, there cannot possibly bs auy oubl . oy pireons, with the best meas of Judging, be- lieve Leat the Hiquor-trade now s not one-lenth o Large as it was fordierly. We do not kuow but such an Opimion i cofrect, but content ourselves with saying that the ditninaticn of the trade Is very great, znd the favorable aects of the policy of Prohibition are mani- fest to the 1uost casunl observer. Bisscas Kixesnoss, Iz, Mayos, ong in Dy four es-Mayors, i Marows OrricR, Crrx or Baxcon, ., May 30, 152, The law s Ueinz enforced throughout the Siale as Dever before, aud wits wouderful succos. o reaidant; of eur St3%a ean have any daubt that the A tompecance law with nou-tem- liquor-tratfic bas been greatly ropressed and reduced, 13 18 rzfo to say that, in our city, not one-tenth part B3 much is sold now as in years when the law was not enforcad. J. 8. WareLwniant, Mayor. [Concurred in by Aldernion and other city eflicers, zzd others.) FROM & DEMOORATIC MAYOR. ToRrLAND, Me., May 29, 1572, MY Deax Sm: . . . 1 have had good oppor- tumty to_observe the condition of tufs State in the matter of the ure and sale of 1ntoxicating liquors for ceveral ycars past, 35 compared with otber States whiere ihere are no’ Probilitory laws, aud azo certain that tho raral portions of Maine are, and have beon, in an infinitely better condilion with refercnce to Lo salo snd use of such liquors than aimilar portions of ather Btates referrad to; and are, and bave beeu, moreover, comparatively fres from Lotn the sale and use, 3od this muat fairly be considercd the result of Prohibitory legislation, At the present time . . . the law is probably en- forced, even in large towns and cities, a8 thoroughly, at lcast, a8 auy other pensl statute, WILLIAY S, PUTNAM. [Mr. Putnam was Democratic Mzyor four years ago. Hia party lins always oppozed Prahitition. Hence the special vutue of his testimony.] YROX THE MAYOR OF BANSOR. Bruxawick, Me., June3, 1872, Tho declaration mads by msny persous fhat the 3lnine law is inoperative, ana that liquor is sold freely £0d in lurgs quantities 13 tLis State, i1 Dot true. The lquor-traic has Leen greatly repressed and diministied ut the State, sud in many places han The law isas exocuted u are, We 8ay, without rescre, that, if liquors aro sold at all, it iu 1u vory swall quuntities compared with the old times, and in a secret way, as other unlaw/al thingy 2re dons. Josuua L. CHANBERLALNE, Gronux C. Crawronp, Posimaster. To Gen. Neal Duvw. {Gen. Chamberlaine was Governor of this State for four years preceding the term of thie present Goveruor, Ho 3 vaw President of the owdoin Coleze, at Bruus- il Orric o Ovzusexus ov TIe Poox, LoBTLAND, June 4, 1872 1f liquor-shope exist at all in this city, it is with se- crecy sud great caution,and the same thing is trus generally throughont the State. ‘The favorabls efect of this policy is very evident, particulariy in the department of paujerisn and crim While the populstion of ths city iucreases, pauperis aud crime duniuish, and in lepartineut of police the number of zrrests zud commitnents is very much loes than forwerly. JOAN BRADZORD, Chairman, And tue rest of the Board. Thers is plenty more testimony to_tho same effect. Dut lhere is suflicient to sot the matter right, There is _still another kind of ovidence. Ina tabls published in Tue TrinvNE not tong siuce, mving an ebstract of repoits of sales by the liquur-sellers of the country to the Intercal Lievenue Department, we tind the following ac- counts of the salos per capita in the several States. Wo give a few: 3Lias (Prohibition) Califortiia....... Khode [stand . By relerence to this official statement, it will e seen tiat the sale of liquor in hlaine i leay than one-third of Lbe license Staces. ‘Lhe whole taole ruus about iike this. Even in Mussachu- setts it is lcss thao balf. The figures 1a regard to the arrests for drunk- enness don’t prove any:hiug to auv ome ac- quuinted with the mauér. Liosion bas a Stats Copetabulary depeudent of the liguor juter- esx, aud, Lborefole, the laws are much more etrictly eutorced than elsswbere. We koow bow it 13 n Chicago sud the other cities. The police, 2¢ a geveral thing, are elected by the ssloou-inieraats, and cous.quently the laws agaiust drunkards rewain, to & largs ex- teut, a dend letter. fo Clicago, we all know that the proportion of drunsaids arrested to tho whole uumber is very smail. Soitis m every city wheie tLo police and other oflicers act in tha fear of the political infucnce of the s2loous and tue vicious classes. Facts axND FIGUBLS. THE CHICAGO BQARD OF EDUCATION. To the Editar of The Chiraso Tribune : Si: Tbe attitnde of ths Board of Ednea- tiou, and the evident desian on sowmekody's part to rouse a feeliog of hostility to the public echools of this city, merit the careful atientiou of erery citizen. The schools have been grow- ing in public favor. In every quarter of tke cily families who bad long bheld aloof from them, and looked with distrust upon their theories, and with gkepticisia upon their promises, have coms to think betier of them, and to sccord to them not only patronage and support, but confi- dence and admiration. The press of the city has within tle year ziven them special study, and, up to the orgamization of the presens Board, uni- formly eulogistic notice. Now, matters bhave chauged. Radical changes bave bees propossd and seriously considered by the Board. Evident- ly inapired by some radical theorist belouging to that body, unreasonablo and mischievous atiacky bave been made upon nearly every dopartment of tho school-syatem of the city 1a the Cuicago Times. Toe High Schonl, which is a thorn in the sido of all the man-haters in every city in the coon- try, seems to be the finst object of attack. I'nis attack is singularly and consgicuously disingenu- ous. The charges osteusibly proposed by the Committee on the Iigh Schavl were proposed without conscliation with the mauagers of the school or the Snperintondent, or without any adequaze personal kuowledge 0a ths pare of tho Commutes of the merits of the cave. The changes projosed are, Lo move the High-School classes from tho seve:al rooms which they pow oceupy 1n various paits of the city near their bomss, to tus HigiS:hool proper, co West Mooroe strect, and w s0 change the methods of procedure in thabinstitution as to virtuallv or- ganize two schools, one-lialf of the pupls com- iug io the morning aud the other hall coming 1 the afternoon. ‘Ihe proposed schems imposes double du:y upnn the teacuiers, 2nd a practically 1mpossible amount of work upen the pupils. “Tlis will be apparent when it 18 considered that it is propored 10-80 arrznge matters thas all study is to ve Gona out of eclool, and the whole time of puptls in school bs given 10 recitation. The aciual state of things will bo this : Each teacuer will bave forty pupils. Ile will be ex- pected to hear four recita:ions of foriy minutes each during pach sessiou. Hscan thus devoto during each recitation ono minuta to each pupil, for the purpose of ascertaining how much the pupil bas learned duriog ths time devoied.or supposed to Lie desoted to study. Tie necessary mods of exnmination involved in the plan can bs witnessed auny day io the Criminal Court when the State's Attornev is extracting information from witnesses. More thao tms. ‘The lessons are prepared under the most unfavorable aircum- stances, The pup:l Las no protection from the ju- teriuptions of compantons, the thousand thought- lesa incssagea of incousiderate parents, or ibe arbitrary deniands of society. No opportunity is given to cousult refercuce books. Pupils 12 years of age s.ud upwards are assumod to bave imatunty aud strergth cnough to prepare over night for three hows' constant recitation. That section of iha school doomed to atteod the after- noow ¥dasion s also doomed to receivs the min- 1strations of feschers whose vitality has beeu ex- bausted on viher pupils in the morning eession. Who would bave thought that a committes of the Board of Education of tho Citr of Clicago, at the dawn of the last quarter of tho ninetecnth century, would recommend such pedagogy as this ? Bat there is another feature of the cass which inteliigent citizens sbould consider. It is under- stood that even the Committes does uot exvect the schoolto bn beuefized by the proposed chiange. Thore ta good reason to supposs that the real objectof the movemont is to produce such a state of popular dissatisfaction with the school as will resultin the es:ablishment of a high or intermadiate school in each division of the city. Now, if this course bo neces-ary, tho hovest and manly way for the Doard of Educa- tion to do is to labor houestly and opealy for ity accomplistioent. No pitiable sacrilice of pies- ent good ehould be mado 1n a contemptible po- litical expedieut to sccare popular dissatisfac- tion. If thersaro insilicient texchers in tho High Schoo!, who make its work 1mperfect aud unsatisfactory, the Board saould remove them ; but the peoplo of Chicago have a right to demand tbat the High School shall not be ruined in order to gratify any clique in thie Board in = desire to secure popular dis- satisfaction. It is mot possibie in tiis age to evolish the High School. For the credit of the city—1ts reputation for culture—in considerztion of the stimulus that the High School affords to efficioncy in tho lower echools, and in tho dis- charge of tho patriotic and sacred duty of pro- moting the intellectual progress of the socn-to- be lesding citizeus of Chicago, tha people and the Board of Education must sce to it that thero be no reason of discord, disorganization, or retro- gression in the work of the High Scho ‘There is no rcason to guorose that, in case tbe a:tack wmpon the High School is successtul, the district schoois would be cxompt. In fect, the preliminary attack upon the latier has beea made within & week in the edilorial columns of the Tumes. The intimation that the courss of instruction of the scbools of Chicago is **£0o refined” msy posui~ bly be attributed to the sprrowful appreciation of the Times, but the sstounding charze that onr children zro ** doomed to illiteracy,” and tuo several specifications thereundsr, betray the same dietorted 1nepirastion that produced alike pre- liminary attack upon the High Bchool ~Vocal musis, “drawing, and oral - tion ars the *frauda™ and “humbugs” that, in dread array, are forcing the coming genera- tion into * appalling illiteracy.” No series of charges and specifications could 20 well establish the wistaken zeal of the accuser an these. It is scarcely nocessary to defend the retention in the achools branches that find a place in the course of study of every city in the world that makes any pretensions to afording adequate in- struction to its youth. ) Nevertheless, every citizon of Chicago, and every membor of the Board of Education, should Loow that these braoches do not retard the progress of pupils either individually or collect- ively. It 18 nearly thiry years ago since David Page, of Now York, to whom ths present genara- tion owes much of its superior knowledge, wrote : “ Music is becoming an exercise in our best echools: and, wherever introduced snd Judiciously conducted, it has been attended with pleasiug results. It promotes good reading and speaking, by disciplining the ear to distwgush sounds ; aod it also fucilitates the cultivation of the finer feotings - of our natare. It aids very muoch in the goveroment of the school, as its exercise gives vent to that rostleseness which othervire would find an escapewment 1n boisterous nowse and whispering,—and thus it often proves a sarety-valve, through whick a love of vociforation and activity waypass off ina more lharmless and pleasing way.” No better or tiuer description of ths actusl effect of vocal music in our schools tuau this can bo given. Thers is uo question that 1ts influence on the pupils of the schools of this city Lias maae possible its _proud record of the [ast two yoars ou tlie question of corporal puuiskment. - Whoshall then extenuate tho folty tuat would-grudge to this migtsy pro- moter of healtily discipline the twenty minutes per day that is givea to 1t in our achools ? It israther Inte 1o the day to grumble about the time spent in draning in the schools of great cities, The simplicity of its elementary princi- ples renders tho acquirement of the art compar- auvely easy ; while 1t power to promote keeu- nexs of pe:ception, clearncus of ides, and accuracy of expresaivn 1s umiversally ackuowledged by all who kuow anything about the subject. Leaving out of view, theu, entirely its unhtarian im- portance in a community so largely devoted to wecbanical and industrial pursuits, is not the tweuty-five miuutes per aay, whicb is its mazi- mum sllowauce 1n the scaools of Chicago, well speut? The charge that valuable time is wasted in the schoo!s 1a the practice of gymnastics is utterly frivolous. No considersbie poriion of ume s spent in any scho.l upon tlus ubject. ‘Feachers ect in this matier nuder the goneral in- stiuction that whea a long session, or peculiar atmoupaer:c conditions, make mauifent a feeling of woaniuees or lassitude, & generzl change of pomition 2ud some gimple pliyeical exvreiess may be indulged 1n. ‘fhe practice is mot followed regularly except iu rooms filied with very youug chularen, waose plysioiogical and hygienic ne- cessities- require it. Iu point of fact, it is 2 momentery expedient rosorted to for the purpose of rendering all of the balance of the seasion available for uchisol duties proper. The quenstion of oral instruction in teaching does uot call for serious comment. Any one who has ever atiempted Lo teacu, or who has ever been taught, kno s thut oral work is the Lifs and soul of all ceaching. ke specisl woik in this de- pertment in toe schiools of Chicago is iuteaded us ® recreatfon frum the drudgery of lesson- getting, 2ud in 1o case cunstwes miore than an averzgo of liftesn munutes per dav. ‘The sub- jeets to bo conrideed in each grade are named iu thie course of instruct:ou as a guide to teach- ers in reierences to the matter 1aught, and tiis in vo wey interferes with the menner of its presentation. 1t i8 o mubject that has undei- goue fiequ:nt moditication, and thut may prop- erly bo fuither modiied without serions iujury to the scucols. Bat that even the subject of oral instiuctiou retards e progress of papils 1n Chicago, is an utterly gratnitons assumption, aud 18 fouuded on erronecus views of tue scops and agecign of the work. It thus appears that each of the specifications under the general charge examined with refer- ence 10 their beariug on that charge signally fauls Lo sustain it. Oo the contrary, the studies aud pract.ces afluded to appear ty have been in- trudaced after faithful snd inieliigent obeerva- tion of tue mentel Liabit, processss, and capabili- ties oi chudhood. It remains then for the public and wembers of the Board of Education to ex- swine the mam charge, and reo if from zny cause the public schculs of Clucego doom their pupils to illiteracy. ‘Y'he piaw of iustruction at present in use in this city 1s no recent experiment. 1t was adopt- ed 10 sabstantialiy its prescot form some tifteen yenra 220 unaer the Superiutendency of W. H. Wells. "1t lias therefore becn long enonch in operation to enabie us to give tesalls in Lais con- necion with the accuracy of ofiicial returas. T'hess show that no mute unfortunats point of attack could be choien than that eelected. There are, according to thelatest ceusnus rourus, fewer illiterates becween the agos of 10 and 21 years in Chicago than io anv other city of the sams size in the Uhited States. . The per cent of illt- eracy is lower than in St. Loais, Cinciunati, New Yoru, P’biladelpuia, or Boston. The per cent of illiteraey iu the City of Chicago is ouly about one- fourth of that of the portivns of lilinois Iying outside of Clucago. Can there be any mote sat- istaztory evidence than tius that the Chicago course of 1netructiu is pot producing illiteracy 2 Can thicre be any better evidsnce that the results accomplished und .ent as they anpear in the evervday work of the schools 2 Upe remark remaics to be made. The idea that pupils leave tue rchools before accomplish- ing so-called valuable results 18 less true thau is popularly suprored. Every Loy and girl m the schiools of Cuicago 18 taught to read and write Lefure leaving tho very lowest grade. Upon leaving the primary school the fucdamental operations of aritmetic are practically under- sto.d, tae distinction between common and Froper nout &, tue riwplo teases of tne verb, and the correct nge of the articles, aud of ** these aud “those,” and of cop:tal letters, the period, i rogation point, and quotatiou marks, are Iearied, ‘Che averazo apo of pupils upon the completion of this i3 lass than 11 vekrs. The Boad of Edccatoa will . tind it difficulc to 1mprove theso results. The same thing is found truo farther om. The averaze age of pupils upon completing tbe work of the disirict schools is a little more than 15 years. For several yeats past there havs beeq from ono to six pu- pils per year whobave done this work zud parsed tbe examinaticn for sxdmission to the IHigh Sclionl before reaching the sge of 13 vears. ‘Ihere bave been from forty to fifty pupils per yvear dmitted under the age of 14 years, and fully Laif the pupils are adwitted unoer the age of 15. ‘Theso are the facte, though thero have Leen constart accessious of more or less ill-rre- pared pupils from outside. Does tnis look as if it was the amount or characier of work laid down in the course that drove pupils out of the schools and ** doomed " them ** to iliiteracy 7™ 1t is the manifest daty of the Board of Ednca- tion to guerd sgamnst radical legirlation if it would preseive the proud prominemce of tho schools of Chicazo. 1f the facts arc zs stated berein, sny aticmpt to lessen tho efliciency of the schools oy the abolition or emasculation of characteristic or essential features is litle less than treagonable. A, Cmicaco, Oct, 24, 1674, —_—— AN AUTUMN-THOUGHT. My eoul ix weary to-mglt, With the endless round of cars, Of this city-life, with its dust sud strifs, And I long for the fresb, freo air. © for the dim old woodr, With pathways fragrznt 2nd brown, Where the withered oaves, Lice golden sheaves, By the winda are sifted dow: .Whera the maple’s crimson robe Throuzh » silver veil is seen, Aud the chieatnut old, with its crown of gold, Aud tae henuock's cluak of green For the dreamy eound of waves, Aa they ripple on the rhore, And the yeliow reeds wecre the wild duck fesds, And thie flash of tho boatman's 0ar; For the poaceful Autnmn-felds, Witli o river winding awsy, The ruined mill on the sunset hill, And the bush of the clorng day. And O for the heart of a by, ‘With a apirit glad and free, And the dream of a day. that faded away Forever, and ever, {rom m H I8 Col. Miles’ Expedition. Opo Flarry Dowers, wnting from Camp Sup- ply, Indizn Territory, to the Patriol of Burling- ton, Vi.. gives a sowewbat different storv of Col. Miles” expedition from that transmitted through the War Departinent. The comunand, consisti of eight companica of cavalry and four of fantry, left For: Dodge on tho 11th of August. Near tbe porth fork of Red Kiver the Indians attacked the cavalry aud two companies of in- fantry, and would bave fougbt a band-to-hand fignt "bui for the 12-pound Parrot gun, which stiowered shells iuto shem whon they would ge: into bunches. The Gatliog gun proved to bo of no use, as the Indians did not gather into masses of sufiicient size for the guu to, be effectual. ~The Indians finally retred. DBowers adds that the way in which the expedition 1s conducted is disgraceful. Tho infastry wers marched hard, aud not half fed, and compelicd to keep up with the cavalry and artillery ou less than haif rations. Tha horses wers 2lso on balf forage, ®nd 2bout 100 bewd had beea loss, while about 200 mors ‘ware unfit for duty. A LIFE’S ENICMA. A Norwegian Sketch, BY BIORNSTJELNE BIORNSOX. ** Why sit hers 2* *¢ Bocauss it's high snd pleasant.” ““ But it goes =0 steep down it mskes me qeita giddy, and the sun shives so dazzling on the water. Let's go a little further.” *¢ No, not any further.” “‘Just back, then, as far as that gresnin- closure; it was so pleasant there.” “'No, Leay, not there, either,” and he funz himseif down as if Lo either could not or woald not go farther. Sho romained standicg, with her oyes intently fixed upon lum. *! Aasta,™ thien be £aid, “ now you must explain to me why it was you were a0 much afraid of that foreign skipper who came in just in the dusk of thie evening.” *‘Didu’t I think that waait!” she whiapered, and seemed to wish 1o avoid the matter. **Yes, you must tell ms before you go, elso I #hall never como again.” *‘Botolf I" she exclaimed; and she tnrned, but still remained atandiog. “Its true,” ho continued, *I promised you I woulda't 2sk any questions, and I'll still keep my word if you like ; but then things must como o an ena between uy.” " She burst into tears, and came over to him, with the sun shiniug fall upon ber slender little figare, small haods, and soft golden hair, where- from her kerchief had falien. He sprang up: **Yes!" he cxclaimed, * yon know very well when you come looking like that at me, I al- ways give in to you. But I Lnow, too, that tho lenger Lhis toing goes on the worse it gets. Can't you undoratand that, though I may prom- ise you = hundred times not to wish to Enow about your bygone life, I never have any pesce ? 1 can bear it no more.” IHis face, too. did in- deed bear a look of long-continnea suflering. ‘es, Botolf, you did indeed promiss me to Iet that thing rest—that which I can never, never tell you about. You promised me solomaly ; you said you didn't carn about it, it youa could but bave me. Dotolf!"” she exclaimed 2gain, sinking to her knces upon the heather; and she wept as tbough ber very life was in petil, and eo looked at luw through ber fast-talling tears that she seemod at once thie loveliest and most miserable creature he had ever geon in all his days, ‘* O dear me!” he exclaimed, rising, but thea directly eitting down agaun, **if you aid bat lovs me well enough to have conficence in me, how happy we two mighs be!” **1f you, ratlor, coald but have a little confi- dence in me ;" she implored, cominyg nearer him, sl upon ber koees, and looking yearuigiynto bis face. **Love yum! WLy that very night wwhen your ship bad run iato ours, whon I came up ob the deck, and vua stood there in command, I thought I had sevar seen arsbody 5o brave aud manly ; and I loved you from that moment. Aad thea when you carried me overiuto the boat when the ships wate swking, I once mora fols, what I thouzhs I pever should feel zgatu—a wish to Iive.” Sbe weut in mlonce, with her Lands clasped togetker, resting apon his knco. ** Botolt ! thea so6 exciaiwed, ** be good 2nd noble ; Le as you ware wihen you fizst tovs me ! —Lotolf! Wiy do yon nrgw me 502" he replied. al- most barsaly, * You know very well it cau't bz, Oue must have a womaw's whole soul ; thongh tor a littla while st fits:,. perhaps, one 14 contlent without.” She drew back, and suid carelesaly : Ah, well, thea, my lifs can never come right O God!"” aud.once more slie began to weep. “ Trust me with the “whols of your lifs, and not merely a part of 1t, and it willall come nght 8u far s [ am concerped..” He spoke cheeifully, us though to enconrage ber. She did not answer; tat he sawshe was strug- gling mth beruelf. *Hlaster yourself,” ho arzed; * run the risk of doing as L wizh. Thioiza can't bs wores than they are, at any rate.” = “You'll drive me to tkw very worst,” sho saud, piteousiy. He nusunderstocd her, and continned ; ““Even if you bhave o confess ubo greatest i:,xime tome I'll try toLear up; but thus [can't 2ar.” ** No; and neithercan .!/" she exclaimed, and zhe raso. *I'll help sou,” he eaid , rising also: ** day by dayI'll help you, when »{ ouly know what this thing is. ButTam quite too proud to be with a womau [ dou't know fully about, zud who, per- baps, belongs to somekody elze.” A bright tlush come ovor her face. “ Forshame! 1f you talk of pride, I'm 2 good deal proncer than you.arc; and I won't have yuu 3y such thiogs. So, stop) " *1f you'ra ko very pioud, then, why do you lezve 100m for my suspicions 2" ** Gud betp me! I caubear thia no longer!” No, nor I either. I'vo made a vow it xball come to an end this day. ** How cruel it is.” sLie. wailed oat, *to go on wortying and tormenting a woman who bas trasted bewsetf so fuliy to you, and bas oegued aud prayed of you as [ have been aoing.” “She was vear again beginuiog to weep, but witha suddea cisaugo of feelin‘i she exclaitied, * Yo, L ueo bow it1s: you think by provoking and ox- cinag me you'll get things out of me!™ Sho looked at bim indignanti + and turned aside. Then she Loard bim say rlowly, word by word, **Will you, or will you nce 2" I will not,” replied Abe, stretching out her band; **no, notif you give me all we can ses from bers!” She weut .Irom bLim, bher Losom heaved, aud her eres wandered :0acd fro, but mostly looked toward him, now steruiy, vext sor- roafully, then sternly again. She leaed azainst a tres aud wept ; toen cezacd weeping, aud re- turped to her former mood. **Al, I knew very well rou didn't Iove me,” she beard next, and become in & moment the most humble and venitent o creatures. Tuice she tried to answer, but, instead, she flung herself down upoo tna heatier, and md her face in ber bands. Batolf came forsard and stood over hor. She knew be was there, and she wated for bimto #peak, and tried to_ prepara herself for whatever Le nught say; but uut a word came, and sho grew yet more disturbed, and felt oblized to look up. She sprang to her feet - stantly. toli’s loog, weatner-boaten face eecmed to bave tecome earkea and hallow, bis deoply-sct eyes staringly promiuent, and bis whole figure nocstrous; and it stood over ber with some atrange influence tiat suddealy made Dber seo him onco more upon ths ahip, just as she saw um on the night of the wreck ; but now Lis strength was bouudless, and it wasall turned agaiost her. **You have been untruthfu! with me, Aasta.,” Sie turned awsy, but be followed ber, and continued : “And you have mado me untruthful, too; there hasn's been perfect truthtulness between us a single day ever since We Lave been to- ctuer.” s He stocd 20 near that ehe conld feel his hot breath; he looked atraight 1nto ber eves till ahe felt quite giddy; she knew not what he might the nest moment szy or do; and o eho closed hor eyes. She stood as though she muat either 1all or rush away; the crisis was coming. Inits preinde of deep silenco, Botolf himself became atraid. Still, cnce more he began in bis former strain— “ jlako everything clear; make an end of all this miserable trickery and concealment—do it bera—now. es,” she answered, but quits unconscious- Iy—* #0 I say—o it hore—now 1" ; He gave a loud cry, for she rushed past Lim and fung herself over tho stesp. He canghto ghunpso of Ler golden hair, Ler uplified bauds, sod kerchief, winch spread out, shpped off, znd Hoated slowly down after her Ly iiself. Ho heard no shriek, and he heard no fall wto the water pelow ; for it was very far down. Iudeed, be was not listening; for he bad sunk to tho earth. Out from tho sea she bad come to bim that Dight at first: into the sea, sho had now passed away again ; and with her, the story of her life. In the midnight darknes of that silent deop Iay all thas way dear to him; enould bo not follow 2, He had come to that Dlace with a fim Ceter- ‘mination to make au end of the taing that tor- mented him ; this was not the end ; and now it could never come; the trontle was, indeed, oaly now in reality begiuning. Assta’s deed cried out to bim that ne uad made a terrible mustale, and had killed her. Evenif his wisery shoud become ten times greater, he must live oa to tind out how zil bad happencd. She, who was almost the oaly one seved on that fearfal mght, hiad been saved only to be kitled by mm who saved hor. He, who had gone voyaging sad traflickiag about 2s if the whole world were noth- ing bat tca and mart, bad all at once hecome the victizs of a love which bad ilied the womao of bis choice, and mast now kill him. Wes he a bad man? He had novor Leard any oue 62y 80, noither had be over felt it humself. But what if, after all, it were so? Ho rose; not, however, to cast himaelf over the steep, but to return co the velley; no man killa hinxe!f jurt when be hun found a gress enizma which he wishes to solve. But the enigma of Aasta's life conld never be lved now. Sue had lived 1 America ever s.oce #he bad grown up; and sne was coming from th:re wheu tho ships rasiuto each other. In Wit part of Americs should his quest begin ? From what part of Norway sho had at first como Le did nuz posicively know; and was uncertais even wuether ber family name had not been chauged since then. And that foruign ssipper ? Wio could e ez Dia Lie £now Auats, Or was it onlv sue who koew somothing of him? To question thua was hike questioulug toe very sea ; and Lo journey forth to wvestigae, was like DIUORIDE 10ty L8 depths. Surely be bad mado a terriblemistake. A wom- a0 penitent on acconnt of Kome guilty thing would baye found relisl in contessiug 1t to her Lusbaud; and oue sull impenitent woaid have sougut tefuze in fome evasion or other. Lat Ansia had neither coafezsed unsthing nor had Tecourse Lo auy svadion, but had sougut refuge in death wues ue w0 tormented uor. Buch couduct showed O mign of gult. Lut why not ¢ Sowe tolks had a great droxd of confess- ing anytlung. Aasis, bowever, bad no such dread ; tor sie Lad alteady confensed theio was suething about Ler hle whicia she could uever teli . Yorhaps, then, the greatuess of her Buuc made confersion iapossible? But she could not have had the Lurden of auy grea: guxit upon her ; for she was often joyous—uay, ©v6u {wil of tun. bhe waw hascy aud inpeinous, itls troe; Lus she was also very full of teuder feeling and iouness. Lerhaps tho guils was Boxne otbier person's sud LUt Liers at alty Why, then, bad she vever told buseo ? Af she had ouly duus tuis, ult wouls bave come righe. But, BUppOsiug thiere were nu guilt, estber on Ler bide, or o that of anybody eixe, how then ? Bue she bercelf bau smd tuere was svmethung ane coule never teil bz, Aud then, Low avout tuat foieigo skipper ke was woatrad of 2 How Vs it ? Ln Lo name of gouduess, LOw was it 2 Aly, Lzd sbo baew el alive, ke would still have torimeuted her! Ihis tbought moved Lim reply, aud 1uu00 him reproacy und despise bim- el beyoud weasure. Stili ke bogau agsin—porhaps she was not so ginkiy 2 she nersedd belioved ; ur perhaps not 5o guilly as otbors might bave thoughic? How oficu did we do wrung quite iunocently, and ouly through iunorauce, tuough wo few coutd uadersiaud that! Unus Azsta bad thought that Le, wino was alwags iull of supicion, wouldnot undorsianat. Uut of ouo clear, simple suswer he would bave fouud watter for a Lubdred sos- picious questions ; aud 8o she bad cuusen to contide beiserf to death rstier thai o bim. Why could e pever leave herin peuce? Sue Lud fled from the thuogs of her pust Lfe, nud suught refuge with him; and then ke, fursootl, must constuntly drag thew fouward aud fing tuem in ber face! She was traiy auzciied to bun, asd suowed bim all love and tenderuess; wual Tighit bad be, thew, to concern bimself aboul ber pusi? Aud, if he had sny such ugnt, why did be pot eay so in the be- giouivg 2 Whereas, tho more Ler affection bad 10w, the more bis disquiet bad growu ukowize —when shie, nOX WeTeiy Lrougl XAWIrauOn ana Rratitude, but also wiroagh love, Lad becvine waolly bis owg, then, forsuoth, be must vegin to wisll to kuow all zuout what sk had dune aud been in days gons by. ‘Phe mure, 100, dhie hasd pleaded fu: iereeli the worse bo Lad thought of ber, ana tho muio Lie had iusisted that there was somethung be oughit L bs tula. ‘Y'acw, for the urst tiwe, arose the question, bad ke wid her everyehing 2 VWould it realiy ve migut for husband and wile o tell each olber evarytiung? Would all be understood if it were twld? Most certatcly noi. e lieary two cluldren playiog, and he looked asound. He wins sitliug 1u ths greea iuclosuro Acsia bad sposen of a Litle whilu agu, but he Lad uo¢ been anars of it till now. Five hours had pudsed; Le thought it was a few wiuutes. Yue cwldren had wose likely beeo playiug Lisere for & lung time; but ue bewd them uow for the lizet ime, Witat! Was not ome of them Agnes, the cietgyman’s title daughter of 8 years, whom Ausia Liau luved even to idulatry, 20d who waa 50 lime bor ! Goud beavens ! Low like she was ! Agues bhad uss vet aer little b.other upon a greal stoue, whers he bad to L6 1 Eehool, while w6 Was schioolmaster. ** Suy wow Just what Isay,” she cowwauded. c. T iy Heaven.” * Hailowed bs Thy namo.” 4 'Arvid ue nawme.” “rhy “Not Iy will be done.” * No; want.”? EBoiolt crept away ; not. however, becanse tho prayer had toucued lum , indeed, be bad ot maiked Lhal 1L Way & Lreyer ; butwhile Le look: at 2ud listened to the children, be Lecawe in s own eyes, a Lornbio wild beast, unlit to cowe uear eituer God or mau. He dragged himself Le- bind sowe bushes, vo'that tue clidren might not discover wim ; he was more arraid of them tuan be bad ever bees of auy obe tu all bis Lfe. Ho sluuk of 10t the foiest, 1ar awsy from tuo Lugh road. Wuers should he go? To the now empty house be bad vought and furnished for Aasca? Or thou.d he o sumewners furtheraway? [o matiesed notbing; for wherever Le thuught of golug, Lo saw Aania standiug there. It s said Luat wien foiks ate dyiug, L6 last object thoy a beo 18 pictured upon thair eyes ; 50, two, whe mau wakies Lo ConECivusuess alier duiug a w ed decd, Lue first ouject be sees is pictured upon Lus eyes, aud Le cau uover get nid of it Lhus, when Lotoll saw Aasta, sue 10 lunger appearec 10 Lim as ske bao upor Ihe MOULLAL-3l0pS £ LUTL » Lime befuro, but sl:e seewed 10 bo a Listle 1suoceut giri—iu fact, 1o bs Agnes. Lveu the cture he retaiued of her tiguie while she way 1ng doan the sicep was tuat of Agnes, with her httle bands uplified. in whatever direc- tioa be turued bis thoughts sud rememorauces of Wo sufferivg womau whom be had sus- pected, they wete met Ly this imuoceut cluld, whom he iad just heard repeating the Lora’s Prayer. In every xcens of lus hifo with Aaxta—from tiie mghtof the skip- wreck to this fnaday moruing—ths child's fuce appeared. The thought ol this mysterous trausformation #0 gre; ed npoa hun, ia bota miod and body, that in the ‘coarse of a faw days be Lecame uuavie to taks lus necessary food, aud “‘llm' while after was eompe:led to koep his ved. Soon every one could see b was approaching death. He ‘whoee wind is tridened oy some great life-enigiua acquires a pecaliar manner, through which bhe himself becomes an ewizma tuotaers, Even fiom tbe day Bowo!f and Azsta first came to live in tnat parish, bis gioomy taci- turnity, ber besuty, aud tue loneiiness of the life of both, had been the subject of frequent #£osu1p amoung tbe necighbors; aod now, when Aasta all at once disappeared, the t2ik incroased uutil the most incredible things sud were the bes: beheved. Nobody couid throw any light upon the matter; for nono of all those who lived upon the mountsin-ridge, or tha shore be- neath, or who were accustomed to go there, had happened 1o be looking toward the steep just when Aasta flung hercelf over. Neitser did har corpse ever dnft o land, itself to give evi- dence. Even while Botolf was yet alive, therefors, no ead of strango Spiritualistic stories were told about bim. 1ile became dreadluito see, as bie lay taere with long, sunken face, red beard, and unkempt red hair, growiog jangled together, and laige eyen looking up Like some Jark tarnin a deep mountain bollow. He seemea to haveno wish either to live or die ; and so the folks szl there was a fight for his ronl going on between God and tho devil. Some said they bad even seen the evil one, eurrounded by flames, climb op to toe windows of the dying man's chamber to calt 0 Lim. They had seeu the evil one, too, they 2aid, 1n the form of & black dog, go suifing round the houeo. Others, who had rowed past baa scen the whole place on fire ; while others, again, beard a company of devils, shousing, barkivg, and laughiug, come up from the sea, pass slowly toward the house, enter through the closed doors, rush furiouslv through ali the rooms, and then go down once more beneath the waves, with the same awful row as they made in coming out. Botolf's rervants, men as well aa womeu, loft immediately, and told alt these tales to everybody. Hardly anyonedared 2o near tue place; and if an old peasant and Lis wife, to whom the sick man bad shown some kindness. bad not taken care of him, he would bave lain utterly unstiended- Even this old woman her- relf was in terror when she was with him ; and she used to burn straw under Lis bed to keep off the evil ove; bul thoegh the mick man was nearly scorched up, be still ept alive, He lay 1w terriole suffering; and the old woman thought at Jas: he must be waiticg to ses some one. 5o she asked Lhim whetber shesuould gend for the clergyman, He shook bis head. 1vas there any oce eiss he would Lko tozes? To_that te made no answer. The nexs day, while be was laying as usnal, ke distinctly pro- nounced the name, ** Agnes.” Ceriauly, tris was not in reply to the old woman's question tho day befors; bat she fancied 1t was, aud she roxo gladly, went out to her husband and bade Lim harness the horses with ail speed, and drive over to the parsonage to fetch Asnes. When he teached ihere, evorsbody thonght there must be some misiaie, and that it was the clergymau who was sont for; but the old man ineisted it was the Lttle girl. She heracif was ' indoors, and heard of the message, whick trighs- ened ber greatly; for she, among the rest. h Board the tzlza about the' devil, aad. sbous t:g Sampany of dovils rushing uw> ous of tha 2. But she bad alto heard that there waa somo ong whom the sics mun was waitiog to sce, an 4 m:; &¢8 befuro ho could die ; znd sire did not thin: it anywise stranga that tha: one shou'a be hessalr, Thom bis wife had 40 of:en fetcned over to the house before. Agnes’ aisters told ber, 100, that one must always try to do what dying folka wish; :gg[;us; chmu ug:;e:l nsicely 10 God, notuing ul T any harm. Ve H let thom deoss b £ o, R Rl i, Wad a cear, cold evening, whered ) eeo long dark’ sbadowrs Igfluwmg.n:l';: cfi:n‘: echoes of the harness-bells ronudin, T far o in the forest. On the whole, she felt it was raiher dread(ul, and she sat saying her pravars, with her hands folded tozether inside her . She did not sce the dovil aayrhoro, neither did sl hear any compay of devils rushing up out of the sea whilo she rode slong the shore : but sha saw many stars above her, aua light saiuing straight befors Ler upon the mountai jeals Up around Eotolt's Louso all secmed dismaly quiet; but the old peasant-woman came out af ouce, and carried Agues indoors, took off her traveling-dress. and fet her warm berzelf at the fire. Meanwhile, the oid woman toid ber she need not be anvirise afraid of toe sick man, but must just go into lum with good courage, aud say the Lord's r'rayer to him. Thon. when Agues bad got warm. the old woman took her baod, and led ber into the sick-room. Botolf lay there, with loug beard and hollow eves, and Le gazed at her intently : but sbe did not think Le loched dreadful, and she was not afraid, * Do you fotgive me 2" he whispered, She supposed sho anght 10 say ** yea,” and sha £aid *ves * accordingly, Then he smiled, and tried to raise himsslf in ltho bed, vut Lis strength failed, aud ke remained Iying. Stie began at once to say the Lord's Prayer; bot be made’s muvement as though to bid by pauso, and pointed to his breast. = So sho lsid both her Lands taere; for this was what she thought Lie intended bher to do; and Le dirsctly Imd one of bis clammy, ice-cold, bony handa, uton her little warm oues, and then closed hia eyca. When she found he did not say anything aiter sho bad fimshed the praver, sbe did mot venture to remove her hauds, but just began to say it agam. When she bad gaid it for the third time, the old yoms came n, looked, and said : % You can leave off now, my dear—he's gone!” —The Saturday Journit, ' g OUR MOTHER'S GRAVE. Our Mother ! sacred name! the dearest sound To Lingaugo kmows, a3 18 s mother’s love ‘Tle swectest aud the tenderest known to earth Allelse is selfah | 1n whateser guise We clothe on, true watecual love Alous 1s God-like m ita purity ! And, at the epsll of that blest name, the B Rises upon the soul. Agun we look 7 Up into thore dear eyes, tust tenderly Watcld, guarded, aod breserved aur heedless youth, Once mare, Ly that lov'd wide, we hear the toes— Toe rad, aweet tones—of azis whose sufferiug, ‘Turougi long and dreary years, had cesutified A xpint unto whoin the soil of earth And earthly beangs forign sesmed wod strange, And out of kecuing with the priceles gold Of » rich wature, Cliawten', ealm, veif-potsed, Sorens, benignant! A ! once moro I s Tiae face we lov'd 8o well, whone glancs eo kind Suall uever more on earth repay the gare Of tieve 5ad oyes with luving, swost. resyonse Of synpathy, aud sympaity s desr! Yes, thon hast paes'd from earth, hiest spirit puro! O h and holy was Wie love thou guv'ss To us, thy chuldren, 1 the by-3oze years, Now Luried in the past. Devitinn true, Aud nlecpless care, aud tenderest regard, Aud bourly prayers,—the unimagn'd pain Of tae true matron-heart,—the broding are, Tbe snxiaus throsbingw, and the long, qorest,— The unselish sacrifica that daily lad’ Thy beart npou the altar of thy lors, Of thy maternal love, 50 truo and deop, For ua who mourn thes gone! it This {a her grave!— or low, gresn, Arassy grave. YVee, bers kg “After Gl acrul teves st sespamentr + ooPet Hern, 01 ~uluravce of a weary fe, A bitter surmw, bora through dreasy yoass Br'a brave, ncbie neast! Thir s e end Of that desr lifa? This 18 the hltseful end Of il thy grief and care, thy wos and paa! Far, though thy wmortal 1sct sleeps in the dust, We know—we Enow—ihat it is well mith thes, Abd tliat thy spirit, 1n that glorious kaud, Diwells with the pure and bisst fur everuors, Thus, though we mousn thes gone, :nd though eur ezt Ara bow'd In sorrow o'er thy lowly temb, e would not wish thes buck 10 earth again | Euough that thou art blest! *Tis ours te vear “Thia paln for thes, a3 thou 80 much hast buros For us, thy children. [n our beart of hearts "F13 ours to wear thy memory fresh and green, Eusbirined in the soul’s holiest sanctuary. ‘Aud ef those words of love, that ever came With kindliest sympathy from those dear ps Now husb'd in the cold toub, 'tis ours tv keep And ponder in our hearts their import trus Of boly faitn. Hut, oh! to hear no more Thoso sccents awext, and Devermore W &eo The amile of fond atfection lightny up Expressiun's tenderest gaze !~ "T1s hard to beart— ¥er, hard to give thee up, althougts tv Him Thou lov'd’st o weih, and irusted bers beiow,— Tuy lifeloug Fricad,—~e yras High-Prest ot Heaveu,— Ruler ot Larth,—* our Maker and our Lord$* Dia will be done on exrth aa 'tis tn Heaven § We buw tns Luce, though s.diy we must bear, Through the long years, thine absence from oor sids. Aud, a8 we listen Ior Wi wei-inowa Vaice, Musdoubtiug of our loss, bow tuck wilt puur Tue tood of feellng, and the cousciousnces Of our bereaveusent thot has snatcb'd awsy Tue crowa aad joy of our maturer yeara! Thou wert our pride! More than our love was thisie, Tuon best of motuers! Braver, traer Leart Ne'er vd, and 10 the by-gone days of uid, ‘Tt have been aucient caliid, thy Spectan sonl .gut wetl bave won for thesus proud 3 nawe ‘As tuose we read upon tise hving (3ge Of tie Wintoric Past, Gpob our lives Tto 1wantie of thine indluenre was turown, Aud %ix from tice the color of each thouglt Alming at augh? of noble or of higtt Astainment, tuat we have, 1 ONT past ymrs, Eler aryseailis'd 0 action, hoa boen caigni Well was i: said that, 3t the mothes's knoe, ‘Tuo basis of true caaracter is laid ! And, 1f ber soul Ue great, she stamps upoa Tue vizgin-waz of the y0ang ound the esal Of nobie purpose, ‘[hua tie twig 1a deat, And thas the tree inctn'd, by the tim hagd Tnas trains and fosters 1o fis eaziy yeara} Greatly and nobly did'st thou live !—thy ¥fa Ouo loug sell-aacritice at Duty's shrius. Tuia was the mottoof thy soul, aud strong Tus Brmness of thy nztute, atill to cncuse Tuo path whera Duty called, cor swerve axidey * Forgeuful of Ler stern and warnmng voics | And oh ! the tenderness of that kind heard Tat felt for all the woes of all mauznd, Aud sbar’d with all God's creatures eyn:patby? 80 quick and sensitive, that not the paig E'eu of the worm but gava reeponsive paag Aud kindred wound ! Because that thon art gone, ‘e very light of day scema pai'd and dim. The touderest hieart of earth has ceseed to beat! Tue dadiiest soul has wing'd 1ta fight to Lasven How shall T speak of thee! So gently strong,— So tender, et so Arm! Such mora! force Tuat sway’d us all quiescent to 3 will Beudiag sove to Right | Such purposs high 1 Such Intellect !~ Such swit, fas-sceing gaze, Dissecting motive and detecting wroug ! So desr to us, that, ta’en * for uli in all, We shiall not fook upon thy ke again 7 But the proud acthem of thy nobls life 1s ours for aye, and (o its music sweet We listen with the ear of Memory. Richer bequest could never have been thine To u, thy children ! Becord of tn:t kifo Within our heart of heart slisll ba eushrin'd ! Seek we o emulate thoss virtuea rars That erat were thine ! S0 ehall thy memory bs 20 us & perfume sweot around our prts,— A grateful fragrance, rising 0a the senss, Liks waftod “odors from tha spicy shores Of Asiy tha Biest 1" c J. W. Dicxvsor. HitaGO, —_— Tea-Drinking in Russin, A correxpondent of the London Jaily News, writing from Nijoi Novgorod, says: * Tea-dnniz- ing, L uave said, is one of the great institutions in Russia; the ontward xod vieible symnbol of this institation is tho somovar. ‘Lhera 18 some- thing almoat sacred aboat the somover in Kus- sia. I wcarcely like to talk about it amongst profape things. It rauks with the gilt images of Greck saints which are fonud 1n the cornera of every room in Rassia, and before which the pious believer 18 never tirod of crosung bimself. In the gama way oot a bousalold, bowever poor. Russia is without a somovar. To maketea in tho vulgar favhion of pouring boiling water into the teapot would be to rob 1t of all its cheerinz graco aod to prafane the institution. Tho svmovar is essential to the orthodox practice of tea ; acd, aa the first word you learn in Rursia is *tchri,” 80 the first which will strike yeur eye on armiving there isssmovar. 'Lic somovar 13a farge mil made of Lrouzo or brass, with a taie riuuis: turongh the cenire, into which eharcual is [ ‘Woean the (ea-hour arrives (2nd every houris i tea-bour in Linssia) rhe charcosl is lightce rather shouwld Isav, lize the sacred fire cf the Zoroastnaas, 1t is uever queuched Tucre it burus in its brazen tube, and the water Luilz audibly, aud tye Ltce cuina tezpot 18 placc: sim- mezsing at tao Lop of tha charcoal—althousds tus last 1w really a beterodox practicod winch has crept invensibly into the puro religion of tea— and i thus way cap after cup of the Luasian nectar is supplied.”